Couchfish Day 102: The benefits of slowing down

After the past few days of few to no travellers, meeting up with the Europeans by the river at Pakse last night is welcome. We linger by the river well past sunset. The beers flow and the food keeps coming as we swap tales—they’re good people and we hit if off. Around 11 pm the ever–patient vendors tell us to go home in the nicest possible way. We strag…